{"id":1865069,"date":"2023-03-28T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africannewsagency.com\/news\/explained-the-luh-twizzy-tiktok-challenge-and-why-police-arent-investigating-incident-at-mall-of-africa-3fc79b77-ebaf-4a4d-a72e-567632312d7b\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T18:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:58:29","slug":"explained-the-luh-twizzy-tiktok-challenge-and-why-police-arent-investigating-incident-at-mall-of-africa-3fc79b77-ebaf-4a4d-a72e-567632312d7b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africannewsagency.com\/news\/explained-the-luh-twizzy-tiktok-challenge-and-why-police-arent-investigating-incident-at-mall-of-africa-3fc79b77-ebaf-4a4d-a72e-567632312d7b\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The \u2018Luh Twizzy\u2019 TikTok challenge and why police aren\u2019t investigating incident at Mall of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
No one died following the Luh Twizzy challenge at the Mall of Africa. <\/strong><\/p>\n No one died following the Luh Twizzy challenge at the Mall of Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n Durban – Hordes of teenagers storming the Mall of Africa in Johannesburg over the weekend has gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n The Luh Twizzy challenge, inspired by TikTok, is where teenagers storm the mall, cause chaos and then leave.<\/p>\n In one of the videos, the teenager are seen cramped on a single escalator as mall users take videos of them.<\/p>\n At the time of the incident, it was reported that one person had died.<\/p>\n But management at Mall of Africa confirmed that no one died.<\/p>\n The mall said it had a zero-tolerance approach to disruptive behaviours on its premises.<\/p>\n \u201cOur utmost priority is to ensure that our shoppers, tenants and staff remain well protected whilst frequenting our shopping centre.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are working closely with SAPS officials and our private security firm to investigate this matter further and to mitigate any future disruptions to our retail community.\u201d<\/p>\n Colonel Mavela Masondo said no case of murder or inquest had been opened.<\/p>\n Ayanda Ntuli, a 702 Radio digital content producer, said the Luh Twizzys were fans of a rapper called Yeat and Playboi Carti.<\/p>\n \u201cFans are mostly in high school and roam around and drink and smoke weed.<\/p>\n \u201cThey mostly wear black. Yeat has no links to these kids. He raps about cars and money.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the Luh Twizzy\u2019s generally have the latest clothes and phones.<\/p>\n In June last year, thousands of teenagers stormed Montecasino in Fourways, north of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n Social media users have expressed dismay at the challenge:<\/p>\n Valentine Thandolwethu Mabaso: \u201cYou should\u2019ve called police on all of them! Such disrespectful kids. They deserve criminal records.\u201d<\/p>\n Thembisile Vanessa WamaGcina: \u201cWhat I witnessed on Saturday was very horrific. I couldn’t even do all I wanted to do cause I was with my 7 year old and 4 year old who got very much scared with all that was happening.To say I’m disappointed would be an understatement ‘I for one’ witnessed it all.\u201d<\/p>\n IOL <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No one died following the Luh Twizzy challenge at the Mall of Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":1865070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,360,361],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n